The Xia family has been operating in the Jiangnan area for many years, with various channels and terminals spread throughout the city along the Yangtze River and canals.
The total number of people and family members who needed to be relocated was nearly 20,000. Counting many items, vehicles, equipment, pets, and livestock, fifty 10,000-ton ocean-going merchant ships were rented to load them.
People and goods that needed emergency transportation would first go north to the northern capital, and then cross Prussia via the Northern Line Railway, which saves more than half the time than shipping by sea.
After Xia Yongming contacted the shipping company, he realized the advantage of leaving first. Due to the tight transportation capacity, if he left later, he might not be able to hire enough merchant ships and wagons.
According to the regulations of the imperial court, May 30th is the deadline for moving. If you exceed this time, you will be responsible for the consequences.
However, in Songjiang Prefecture alone, the people who refused to relocate accounted for more than 70% of the total population.
Everyone wants to see how serious the consequences of failing to hold the law accountable are...
No matter how cruel and unkind the Dog Emperor is, he can't do anything to the hundreds or tens of millions of Ju Mins in the Yangtze River Delta.
As long as you have enough patience and compete with the dog emperor, the loser will definitely be the dog emperor!
Such a feat had never been accomplished before.
After this, everyone can consider themselves a winner!
The Dog Emperor spends so little money just to make himself leave his hometown and dream!
Without millions of silver coins, there is no way to leave the land of your ancestors. This is a typical act of forgetting your ancestors.
The richest man in the world is the Dog Emperor, who has accumulated tens of billions of silver coins.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, he can save his money and avoid disaster, otherwise his order will be a piece of waste paper!
The wealthy families in Songjiang Prefecture who refused to relocate were all waiting to rip off the emperor in an attempt to repeat their heroic act of resisting the mining tax.
"Now that the Dog Emperor's troops have withdrawn from Huating, and the Western Barbarians have not yet established a stable foothold, it is a good opportunity for us to make contributions. You all have hundreds or thousands of servants, and when the armed forces are gathered, there are tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of troops, and the locals In the battle, with the cooperation and assistance of the villagers, it can be said that we have taken advantage of the time, location, and people, how can we defeat the Western Yi?"
In a mansion in the city, hundreds of wealthy gentry have gathered, all of whom plan to stick to their hometown.
Now that the matter has come to this, if you don't want to leave your hometown, you can only start the uprising where you are, otherwise you may be retaliated by the Western Barbarians.
"You don't want to associate with the Dog Emperor, and you don't want to serve the Western Yi, so we can only take this road. This is the only way out for us, and things will change if it is too late. If you are willing to sign and have your fingerprints pressed, after you achieve great things, You can become a member of Parliament and enjoy your rights forever!”
This is to imitate South Korea and establish a parliamentary system. Anyone who participates in the action can automatically obtain a seat as a member, and it is hereditary.
The members elect a speaker and two deputy speakers. The top three candidates with the most votes can take office. All important matters in the future can be discussed by the parliament.
It can be implemented if more than 70% of the votes are in favor. The speaker and deputy speaker will be replaced every five years and can be re-elected once.
We don't want another dog emperor to appear in Jiangnan, and we want to divide the rights of the emperor and the cabinet, so this is the only way to do it.
This is local to Songjiang Prefecture, and other prefectures will do the same.
After Jiangnan escapes from the Ming Dynasty, a high-level council will be formed.
At that time, the distribution ratio of the number of members will be based on the population and finances of each place. The more people and the more money they contribute, the more seats they will get.
Everyone thinks that since this model can operate very well in barbaric places like South Korea, then civilized places like Jiangnan should take it to the next level.
On the morning of June 1, the Prussian army officially took over ownership of the entire Songjiang Prefecture from relevant personnel of the Ming Empire.
This means that not only this land, but also the people, animals, and things on the land, and the various resources under the land, all belong to the Kingdom of Prussia.
As for the former Ming people who are still stranded in Songjiang Prefecture...
That's very simple, let the Kingdom of Prussia handle it by itself!
This was something that Zhu Cihong and Frederick had agreed on before, and there was no need to discuss it separately.
"Na! The Xiyi army has really entered the city!"
"That's right! I didn't even dare to think about it before!"
"That dog... really sold the ancestral land!"
"You are selling your father's land! You are really an unfilial descendant!"
The rich gentry in Huating watched helplessly as the Ming army and the Prussian army completed the handover ceremony. The Shen flag on the flagpole outside the city was lowered, the Prussian flag was raised, and then hundreds of Prussian soldiers walked in with rifles. Huating.
This stunned the audience present. Something strange that had never happened in thousands of years happened so suddenly in front of everyone's eyes, and everything was so smooth, it felt like it was another world away.
"Snapped!"
Just as the Prussian army entered the city, a gunshot was suddenly heard. A Prussian soldier was suddenly shot and fell to the ground. Immediately, the Prussian army instinctively dispersed, preparing to fight back.
The armored vehicles at the rear also quickly drove to the scene of the incident, using machine guns to fire at locations where the attackers might be hiding. The scene immediately became extremely chaotic.
No one expected that such a thing would happen. A sneak attack on the Prussian troops entering the city was considered a desperate act and should not be done unless it was absolutely necessary.
Now, the Prussian army had an excuse for a large-scale search, and it was justifiable. They had previously obtained ownership of the entire Songjiang Mansion from the Ming Empire.
The armed gentry ambushing nearby no longer lurked, but opened fire on the Prussian army unscrupulously. The two sides immediately started a fierce battle on the outskirts of the city.
In Huating alone, the total number of armed troops was more than 50,000, and the size of the Prussian army waiting to enter the city was only one brigade of 5,000.
However, the latter has heavy weapons such as tanks, armored vehicles, truck guns, and armed helicopters, which the rich gentry's armed forces do not have.
The only thing they could get away with was a small amount of second-hand field guns, machine guns and a large number of iron trucks.
It's not that they don't want to buy heavy weapons, but that the imperial court is very strict in this regard.
Buying guns is not that difficult, but if you want to fight, rifles, machine guns, and grenades alone are not enough.
If you only have light weapons, you are destined to take the guerrilla route. It is very difficult to gain a foothold in a city, especially a big city like Huating, without heavy weapons.
The most terrible thing is that the rich gentry's armed forces have no air supremacy. The Prussian army's armed helicopters instantly master the air supremacy and can launch attacks unscrupulously above the battlefield.
Huating, which used to be prosperous and affluent in the past, turned into a battlefield filled with smoke, flames and explosions in half an hour.
There are only a small number of retired soldiers in the armed forces of the rich gentry, and more than 90% of them are servants of the rich gentry. Their fighting will is completely incomparable to that of the regular army.
When a nearby firepower point was hit by a shell, the servants in the nearby houses were frightened out of their wits, as if another shell from the other side would hit them directly.
Had it not been for the fact that the troops invested by the other side were far inferior to our own, half of the rich gentry's armed forces would have been scared away after the first round of artillery fire...
In jargon, life is your own, and you can't risk your life for twenty silver coins!
In order to get a good start, the wealthy gentry also spent a lot of money and gave each servant twenty silver coins.
Veteran soldiers in each platoon and company can receive silver coins ranging from one hundred to three hundred.
This is the money given to the members before the war started. If they can get off to a good start, they can also receive an equal amount of silver coins as a reward.
The veterans were also relatives or fellow villagers of the wealthy gentry. Without this relationship, their employers would not trust them and they would not be willing to work.
Even if the employer trusts them and cannot offer very generous conditions, the veterans will not be willing to do it.
Either give them silver coins or give them to women. They have to give them both, otherwise the veterans might as well just move.
In order to retain veterans with practical combat experience and improve the combat effectiveness of their own troops, many wealthy gentry spent a lot of money.
Granddaughters, granddaughters, daughters, nieces, nephews, and even concubines were all reluctantly given up...
That's not all. The veteran who has been an officer must be given a house and a thousand silver coins before he can die.
He is neither lustful nor greedy for money, just to fight to the death with the Dog Emperor and the Western Yi. This excuse may not convince most of the wealthy gentry.
As long as the appetite of the veterans is not particularly big, the rich gentry can basically satisfy them.
Only by satisfying each other and getting what we need can we ultimately achieve each other's success.
Many wealthy gentry also hoped that the veterans would die on the battlefield, but when they thought about it, that was not the case.
Because once the veteran dies, the servants will have no one to suppress them, and collapse will happen sooner or later.
Expecting relatives who have never joined the military to manage these servants is fine in peacetime, but in wartime, it is just a daydream.
If you want to control these people on the battlefield, you must have real skills. It is not easy to use the relationship between wealthy gentry and relatives as a brand.
I am so-and-so's nephew, you all must listen to me, who dares not to...
You should first ask the cannons and tanks on the opposite side if they will listen!
If Xiyi comes with a bombardment, it will scare you half to death!
Are you still commanding war with this kind of virtue?
It’s almost enough for the commander to lose the battle!
Therefore, most wealthy gentry do not want the veterans they have invested heavily in to die as soon as possible. If they want to die, they must die after they are done.
If you die before the winner is determined, it is equivalent to the collapse of the backbone of your family, and the collapse of the house is not far away.
"Lao Qiu!"
"What's wrong?"
"Both the old Chen family and the old Li family in the north can no longer stand it!"
"So fast? Aren't there more than three thousand of them?"
"They're just a bunch of bullshit! With just three to four thousand of them, their combined combat power is not as good as what we can use in a battalion of the army!"
"How long can they hold on?"
"We may retreat at any time!"
"Isn't Chen Er leading the old Chen family?"
"Yes, but 1,800 people can only be supported by 20 or 30 veterans. The combat effectiveness of the remaining gang is not as good as that of the rogue bandits back then."
"Then keep an eye on me. Once they retreat, they will send out signal flares immediately. We can't wait to be made dumplings by Xiyi!"
"Okay! I'll go back right now!"
It is better for each family to jointly defend. In fact, each family has a defense area and fights independently. If it can be defeated, it will hold on, and if it cannot be defeated, it will retreat.
Whether they can survive depends entirely on the strength of the opponent's firepower, but in the first moment of the war, the rich gentry's armed forces have already lost thousands of people.
For a side without air superiority, the battlefield is two-dimensional.
As for the Prussian army, which had air superiority, the battlefield was three-dimensional.
Whenever a place with a large number of people or strong firepower output is found, armed helicopters will be dispatched to attack first.
Since anti-Prussian armed forces appeared in Huating, the area was completely unable to be taken over by our own side.
Then there is no need to consider the possibility of complete reception. The best policy is to eliminate the resistance forces first.
The next day, after getting the Ming Empire's consent, the Prussian crew flew twelve "air gunships" into the sky.
Also put into battle were twenty-four "Blackfoot Beacon" fighter jets, one hundred Panzer VIII tanks, two hundred Panzer VII tanks, and seventy-two heavy artillery pieces. These were all second-hand goods and were given to the Philippines by a certain emperor. A special gift.
Due to the dense water network on the battlefield, the 40-ton No. 9 tank has not been put into combat for the time being. What's more, the opponent's anti-tank capability is not very strong, so using the No. 8 tank to lead the battle is enough.
Dozens of fixed-wing aircraft and 300 tanks entered the Huating battlefield, and the situation instantly began to tilt in favor of Prussia.
The Prussian army's artillery and air superiority were too obvious, and they did not consider the opponent's casualties at all, and attacked indiscriminately from the beginning.
Buildings were bombarded into rubble one after another, and aircraft kept circling over the battlefield. As long as they still had ammunition, they would not return and continue to straf the targets below.
This kind of environment will greatly test the defensive side's resistance to pressure. A slight mistake will severely damage morale and lead to a complete collapse.
On June 2, the number of the rich gentry's armed forces decreased by 10,000, which was equivalent to the loss of almost one-fifth of their troops.
In this case, many wealthy gentry began to consider negotiating with the invading enemies...
Less than three days after the war started, the target wanted to negotiate peace with the other party, which made many veterans who participated in the war feel ridiculous.
The rich gentry are just the rich gentry, they are a group of weaklings.
He wants the power of an emperor, but he is unwilling to learn from Zhu Yuanzhang and fight to the end.
Even if you can't learn from Zhu Yuanzhang, you can still learn from being an emperor, right?
However, the nature of their urine determines that even the current emperor's fingertips cannot learn from it!
A person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, just spends a small amount of money and enjoys the benefits. What can such a person accomplish?
A wealthy gentry called on everyone to use their wealth and increase their troops to 100,000 before they could continue to defend Huating.
However, almost all wealthy gentry felt that they should keep their wealth and were unwilling to throw their servants into the bloody battlefield.
As long as selfishness remains, the decline of the battlefield will be irreversible.
This is different from the army. Even if a general has selfish motives, he must persist to the end in the face of death orders from above.
Most of the time, orders will be carried out resolutely and thoroughly, otherwise they will be subject to military law after the war.
Who the hell can care about these rich gentry now?
They themselves are a bunch of selfish men!
Fight if you want to, talk if you want to talk, it's totally up to you.
Veterans can only use their money to do their jobs. How much money they get, how much work they do.
If that doesn't work, then just grease the soles of your feet and run away with your brothers...
There is nothing we can do about it. If the other party touches this guy, we can't let the brothers use their flesh and blood to resist, right?
There are not ten thousand people in one dozen, and one hundred thousand people can only hold on to ten.
Then what?
You don’t have to kneel down and beg for mercy!
This is not a hundred years ago. The gap in combat power between the army and the people is already huge.
A thousand rich gentry armed forces may not be able to defeat a hundred regular troops, not to mention that the former have no fighting will at all.
